{"quotes":[{"text":"The famous atheist Christopher Hitchens once declared that ‘You’re expelled from your mother’s uterus as if shot from a cannon, towards a barn door studded with old nail files and rusty hooks.’ Presumably that was what he had in mind when conceiving his three children.","author":"Quentin S. Crisp","tags":["hypocrisy","new-atheism","nihilism"],"id":11043,"author_id":"Quentin+S.+Crisp"},{"text":"I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["existentialism","nihilism"],"id":15205,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"You should get more sleep,' he remarked. 'You won't need so many chemicals.'She raised an eyebrow. 'This from the man with half his bloodstream registered in the patent office.' Jovellanos hadn't had her shots yet. She didn't need them in her current position, but she was too good at her job to stay where she was much longer. Desjardins looked forward to the day when her righteous stance on the Sanctity of Free Will went head-to-head against the legal prerequisites for promotion. She'd probably take one look at the list of perks and the new salary, and cave.He had, anyway.","author":"Peter Watts","tags":["career-development","free-will","nihilism","transhumanism"],"id":16299,"author_id":"Peter+Watts"},{"text":"Nihilism, cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.","author":"Doris Block","tags":["cynicism","film","nihilism","sarcasm"],"id":23265,"author_id":"Doris+Block"},{"text":"Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.","author":"Brent Weeks","tags":["nihilism","philosophy"],"id":29763,"author_id":"Brent+Weeks"},{"text":"We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["buying","consumer-culture","consumerism","consumption","deprivation","desert","despair","emptiness","excess","happiness","happiness-fulfillment-desire","material-possessions","material-world","materialism","materialism-versus-spiritualism","materialistic","materialistic-society","meaning-of-life","meaning-of-things","meaninglessness","modern-life","modern-society","money-happiness","money-not-happiness","nausea","nihilism","nihilistic","opulence","poverty","pursuit-of-happiness","self-inflicted-pain","soul-searching","soulless","spending","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","suffocate","wastefulness","wasteland","wealth","wealth-and-virtues","wealth-of-soul"],"id":31931,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening our eyes to the rejected elements of existence, art may lead us to a more complete and less artificial celebration of the world.","author":"William Barrett","tags":["acceptance","anti-hierarchy","celebration","meaning","modern-art","nihilism","rejection-of-canon-of-values","the-negative"],"id":34311,"author_id":"William+Barrett"},{"text":"If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["absurdism","existentialism","meaning-of-life","nihilism","the-absurd"],"id":41380,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away,.","author":"Michel Houellebecq","tags":["nihilism","philosophy","politics","submission"],"id":48026,"author_id":"Michel+Houellebecq"},{"text":"But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why...' she hesitated.'Why one makes such a fuss about things,' Anthony suggested. 'All that howling and hurrahing and gnashing of teeth. About the adventures of a self that isn't really a self—just the result of a lot of accidents. And of course,' he went on, 'once you start wondering, you see at once that there is no reason for making such a fuss. And then you don't make a fuss—that is, if you're sensible. Like me,' he added, smiling.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["absurdism","absurdity","aldous","aldous-huxley","brave-new-world","existentialism","eyeless-in-gaza","huxley","nihilism"],"id":55757,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":129,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}